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Ultimate Halloween Jeopardy

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This board helps players review Halloween through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Hocus Pocus & Movies, Salem & Witch Trials, Origins & Traditions, Monsters & Folklore, Spooky Pop Culture. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Hocus Pocus & Movies

    In Hocus Pocus, this trio of sisters is accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night.

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    The Sanderson Sisters

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  • Salem & Witch Trials

    The Salem witch trials took place in this present-day U.S. state.

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    Massachusetts

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  • Origins & Traditions

    Halloween is celebrated each year on this date.

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    October 31

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  • Monsters & Folklore

    According to folklore, this creature transforms under a full moon.

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    A werewolf

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  • Spooky Pop Culture

    This friendly ghost first appeared in cartoons in the 1940s.

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    Casper

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  • Halloween Grab Bag

    This orange squash became the classic American jack-o'-lantern.

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    Pumpkin

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Hocus Pocus & Movies

$200 — In Hocus Pocus, this trio of sisters is accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night.
The Sanderson Sisters
$400 — This 1978 slasher introduced audiences to masked killer Michael Myers.
Halloween
$600 — In Hocus Pocus, lighting this object on Halloween brings the Sanderson Sisters back.
The Black Flame Candle
$800 — This 1993 stop-motion film follows Jack Skellington after he discovers Christmas Town.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
$1000 — Bette Midler's Hocus Pocus character is the eldest Sanderson sister.
Winifred Sanderson
$1200 — This 1968 horror film centers on a young woman named Rosemary Woodhouse and her unsettling neighbors.
Rosemary's Baby

Salem & Witch Trials

$200 — The Salem witch trials took place in this present-day U.S. state.
Massachusetts
$400 — The Salem witch trials occurred mainly in this decade.
The 1690s
$600 — This type of testimony claimed a witch's spirit or apparition had harmed someone and was used as evidence in Salem.
Spectral evidence
$800 — The trials began after several girls in Salem Village claimed to suffer from mysterious fits and accused others of this.
Witchcraft
$1000 — This man was pressed to death with stones after refusing to enter a plea during the Salem witch trials.
Giles Corey
$1200 — Salem Village later became a separate town with this modern name.
Danvers

Origins & Traditions

$200 — Halloween is celebrated each year on this date.
October 31
$400 — The ancient Celtic festival often linked to Halloween is called this.
Samhain
$600 — Before pumpkins became common in North America, people in parts of Europe carved lanterns from this root vegetable.
Turnips
$800 — The name Halloween comes from 'All Hallows' Eve,' the night before this Christian observance.
All Saints' Day
$1000 — The custom of going door to door for food in exchange for prayers for the dead was historically known as this.
Souling
$1200 — The phrase 'trick or treat' became widely established in North America during roughly this century.
The 20th century

Monsters & Folklore

$200 — According to folklore, this creature transforms under a full moon.
A werewolf
$400 — Count Dracula was created by this Irish author.
Bram Stoker
$600 — Mary Shelley's famous 1818 novel features a scientist with this last name.
Frankenstein
$800 — In Irish folklore, this headless supernatural rider is often considered an ancestor of the Headless Horseman legend.
The Dullahan
$1000 — This female spirit from Irish folklore is said to wail as a warning of an approaching death.
The banshee
$1200 — The word 'lycanthropy' refers to the legendary transformation of a person into this creature.
A wolf or werewolf

Spooky Pop Culture

$200 — This friendly ghost first appeared in cartoons in the 1940s.
Casper
$400 — The Addams Family daughter known for her deadpan personality has this first name.
Wednesday
$600 — In Ghostbusters, this giant marshmallow mascot stomps through New York City.
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
$800 — This author created Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the novel It.
Stephen King
$1000 — The phrase 'I see dead people' comes from this 1999 supernatural thriller.
The Sixth Sense
$1200 — In Beetlejuice, saying the title character's name this many times summons him.
Three

Halloween Grab Bag

$200 — This orange squash became the classic American jack-o'-lantern.
Pumpkin
$400 — A group of witches is traditionally called this.
A coven
$600 — Candy corn was originally marketed in the late 1800s under this farm-themed name.
Chicken Feed
$800 — In Mexico, Día de los Muertos is traditionally observed around November 1 and 2 and honors these people.
Deceased family members and loved ones
$1000 — The fear of Halloween is sometimes called this unusually long phobia name.
Samhainophobia
$1200 — In Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' the schoolmaster pursued by the Headless Horseman is this character.
Ichabod Crane

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